At the High-Level Forum on the Development of Intelligent Electric Vehicles (2026), Tsinghua Professor Ouyang Minggao stated that by 2030, the proportion of new energy passenger vehicles will exceed 70%, with the ratio of pure electric to plug-in hybrid extended-range vehicles being at least 7:3. By 2040, the number of new energy vehicles in use will reach 300 million to 380 million.
